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(Specimens.)

C. J. CANAN.

FIRE KINDLER.

110. 301,210. Patented July 1,1881.

ATTORNEYS.-

UNITED STATES ETENT CLARENCE JOHN CANAN, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

FIREjKINDLER.

g SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,210, dated July l, 1884.

` Application filed December 26, 1883. (Specimens.)

effective, and clean.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specication, in which a perspective view of my improved firekindler is shown.

A wooden splint, A, of any desired shape, and preferably made of soft wood that ignites and burns readily, is forced through a corncob, B, and then the corn-cob and the splint in the same are saturated with a mixture of resin and tallow, pitch, tar, or any other suitable combustible substance that can be brought into a liquid state. This splint, in addition to its function of serving as the ignition-point, also serves as a means of suspension for the kindler during its drying period and when in stock. The corncob is then rolled in sawdust, or saw-dust is sprinkled on it, and when the resin or other material dries it binds the sawdust to the cob.

In kindling a fire by means of my improved iire-kindler the splint A is ignited, and in turn ignites the cob. The saw-dust catches iire very rapidly, and spreads the flame rapidly over the entire surface of the cob.

My improved ire-kindler is very cheap, clean, and comparatively inexpensive.

. I am aware that a iire-kindler has been made of a corn-cob provided with a coat of resin and a paper wrapper; also that it is not new to provide a corn-cob with a coating of resin and to cut a piece out of its end to form a rabbet, within which is inserted a match; and I do not claim such constructions as of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I As an improved article of manufacture, a iire-kindler consisting of a corn-cob, A, coated or saturated with iniiammable material, and a transverse supporting and ignition splint, B, passing through the same, substantially as set lforth. r

CLARENCE JOHN CAN AN.

Ti tn esses:

J oHN J. HELLEE, W. L. WAssMANN. 

